Chapter 2271 - 2273: Massive Welfare Giveaway 10

Qingqing hesitated for a moment: "Yes."

"Then can you go through the backdoor?"

Upon hearing this, Qingqing’s face changed immediately: "Chengcheng, what do you mean?"

"Hey, don’t get angry, I didn’t mean it that way," Chengcheng hurriedly explained. "I’m just afraid I won’t hold out and get eliminated. If you’re familiar with our boss, can you ask him not to eliminate me?"

Qingqing threw the washbasin in her hand into the sink, "Relying on yourself is better than asking for favors!"

"Hey, why are you so mad? I was just asking." Chengcheng didn’t expect her to get so angry.

Recently, everyone’s nerves have been stretched tight. Chengcheng was also afraid of being eliminated and was trying every possible way out. She heard Qingqing had a connection, and since they were good sisters, she thought she’d ask for a favor. Unexpectedly, Qingqing was so unaccommodating and even threw a basin at her. Annoyed, she stopped speaking to Qingqing, took a quick shower, and left.

For several days, the two didn’t speak a word to each other.

Qingqing is most afraid of others thinking she got in through connections, afraid of people looking at her with prejudice. She was indeed a bit sensitive at the time. They had no idea how determined she was.

Since Chengcheng was ignoring her, she wasn’t interested in making peace with Chengcheng either. She just threw herself into intense training every day, and lately, she couldn’t tell if the captain disliked her or what—always giving her extra "training."

While doing the cross-country weighted run, Qingqing recalled what her uncle said to her a few days ago.

Her uncle called her alone to his study and talked with her for half an hour.

From childhood, her uncle was the one who loved her the most, even more than her own parents.

Her uncle liked girls, yet he had two boys. Her aunt wanted to give him a daughter, but he adamantly refused, which was odd. Later, her mom told her that her uncle couldn’t bear for her aunt to go through the pains of childbirth again, so he firmly prohibited it.

Her aunt always liked to complain that her uncle favored boys over girls, insisting when she was pregnant that they only needed a boy, rejecting the idea of a girl, even forcing her to drink sour plum soup daily believing it would ensure a boy.

Qingqing felt that her aunt was blessed to have met a man like her uncle, who allowed her to remain so youthful and innocent, even now looking not old at all, like a woman in her early thirties.

Even though her aunt said her uncle favored boys over girls, her uncle still loved her and Maimai dearly, with a love that ran deep in his bones. But what her uncle said to her that day in the study... Qingqing pressed her lips together and increased her speed. What her uncle talked about, she had never considered and didn’t know how to plan for.

In Qingqing’s heart, there was a lot of confusion.

Forget it; the most important thing for her right now is to pass the three-month training and become an official member of Dark K. This is her current inevitable goal to strive for.

At lunch, several people sat together devouring their food.

"Where is Qingqing?"

"She was kept back by the captain for extra training again."

"What’s with the captain lately, purposely giving Qingqing a hard time?"

"Who knows? Maybe we’ll be next, so let’s just eat quickly."

Everyone’s spirits were very uneasy, filled with anxiety, fearing they too could be eliminated at any moment. Qingqing was almost always kept back by the captain alone; others ran five kilometers, she would have to run ten. For others, completing twenty exercises in one minute was passing, but for her, if she didn’t reach forty, it was failing. Several boys couldn’t stand it and wanted to talk to the captain, but were ultimately yelled back by him.